When I was waiting in a bar where were you ?
When I was buying you a drink where were you ?
When I was crying home in bed where were you ?
When I watched you from a distance did you see me ?
You were standing in a queue did you see me ?
You had yellow hair did you see me ?
I want to talk to you all night do you like me ?
I want to find out about your life do you like me ?
Could you ever be my wife do you love me ?

Wednesday, February 29, 2012

468 (-) 46th Pope Hilarius dies in Rome, Italy.1792 (+) Composer Gioacchino Antonio Rossini is born in Pesaro, Italy.1864 (+) Outsider artist Adolf Wölfli is born in Switzerland.1908 (+) Artist Balthasar de Rola Klossowski aka Balthus, is born in Paris, France.1956 (+) Serial Killer Aileen Carol Wuornos originally Aileen Carol Pittman and using various aliases, is born in Rochester, Michigan, USA.1960 (-) FBI-agent Melvin Horace Purvis commits suicide by a shot through the head at the age of 56 in Florence, South Carolina, USA.He chose the gun with which he killed Dillinger.

Tuesday, February 28, 2012

1906 (+) Racketeer Bugsy Benjamin Siegel is born in Brooklyn, New York, USA.1912 (+) Mistress of Il Duce Benito Mussolini, Clara Claretta Petacci is born in Rome, Italy.1942 (+) Rolling Stone Brian Lewis Hopkin Jones is born in Cheltenham, Park Nursing Home, Gloucestershire, United Kingdom.1947 (x) Start of the 228 Incident, an anti-government uprising in Taiwan.Estimates of the number of deaths vary from ten thousand to thirty thousand or more.1950 (+) IRA-member Francis Hughes originally Proinsias O hAodha, is born in Bellaghy, Londonderry, Ireland.1956 (-) Robber, murderer, cop killer and Public Enemy Nº 1 Emile Buisson aka Mimile, is executed by the Guillotine at the age of 53 in Paris, France.1957 (-) Murderer Leonardo Salemi is executed by Old Sparky at the age of 44 in New York, Sing Sing Prison, New York, USA.1958 (x) 26 children Die in school bus and wrecker truck collision in Floyd County, Levisa Fork River, Kentucky, USA.It's the worst bus accident in the USA.1960 (+) Serial Killer Richard ‘Ricky’ Ramirez aka The Nightstalker, is born in El Paso, Texas, USA.1960 (+) Playmate of the Year 1980 Dorothy Stratten originally Dorothy Ruth Hoogstraten, is born in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada.1971 (x) 31-year-old Performance artist Vito Acconci performs "Security Zone" with Lee Jaffe in New York, Pier 18, New York, USA.1974 (x) Picasso’s “Guernica” is sprayed over with the text “Kill Lies All” by art-gallery-owner Tony Shafrazi in New York, Museum of Modern Art, New York, USA.1985 (x) Nine officers die in a mortar attack by the Terrorist Movement Provisional Irish Republican Army on the Royal Ulster Constabulary police station in Newry, Ireland.1986 (-) Prime-minister Olof Palme is shot dead at the age of 59 in Stockholm, Sveavägen, Sweden.The crime remains unsolved and has been a national trauma.1987 (x) 56-year-old Serial Killer Daniel Camargo Barboza aka The Beast of Ecuador and Monster of Charquito, is arrested and charged with the rape, mutilation and murder of 71 women in 15 months in Guayaquil, Ecuador.1988 (x) 25-year-old Psychopatic killer Roberto Succo aka ‘André’, is arrested in Venice, Treviso, Italy.1992 (-) Double Murderer David Clark is executed by lethal injection in Huntsville, Texas, USA.

1997 (-) Bankrobber Emil Decebal Mătăsăreanu is shot dead and Larry Eugene Jr. Phillips commits suicide after being shot in the hand during a shootout with patrol and SWAT officers after leaving the Bank of America he had just robbed at the age of 26 in North Hollywood, Laurel Canyon Boulevard, California, USA.Ten officers and seven civilians suffered injuries.2002 (-) Murderer Monty Allen Delk is executed by lethal injection in Huntsville Prison, Texas, USA.2005 (x) 127 Die in a suicide bombing at a police recruiting centre in Al Hillah, Iraq.

Monday, February 27, 2012

1861 (+) Philosopher, social thinker, architect and esotericist Rudolf Joseph Lorenz Steiner aka The Father of Anthroposophy, is born in Kraljevec, Hungary.1887 (-) Composer Alexander Porphiriewitsch Borodin dies at the age of 53 in St. Petersburg, Russia.1901 (+) Artist Marino Marini is born in Pistoia, Italy.1902 (+) Writer John Ernst Steinbeck is born in Salinas, California, USA.1913 (+) Philosopher Paul Ricoeur is born in Valence, France.1913 (+) Writer Irwin Shaw originally Irwin Gilbert Shamforoff, is born in South Bronx, New York, USA.1930 (+) Actress Joanne Gignilliat Trimmier Woodward is born in Thomasville, Georgia, USA.1932 (+) Actress Elizabeth ‘Liz’ Taylor is born in London, United Kingdom.1933 (x) 24-year-old Presumable arsonist of the Reichstag Marinus Van Der Lubbe is arrested in Berlin, Germany.1936 (-) Physiologist Iwan Petrowitsch Pawlow dies at the age of 86 in Leningrad, Russia.Conscious until his very last moment, Pavlov asked one of his students to sit beside his bed and to record the circumstances of his dying.1937 (-) 2 unidentified women are strangled and stabbed in the head with an icepick by Robert Irwin aka The Mad Sculptor, in New York City, 320 East 50th, New York, USA.1947 (+) Victim of Ted Bundy aka The Only Living Witness, Roberta Kathleen Parks is born in Lakewood, Ohio, USA.1947 (-) Murderer Walter Graham Rowland is executed by hanging at the age of 40 in Manchester, Strangeways Prison, United Kingdom.1955 (+) Musician Peter Martin Christopherson aka Sleazy, is born in Leeds, West Yorkshire, United Kingdom.1958 (+) Wife and victim of Sex Pistol Sid Vicious, Nancy Spungen aka Nauseating Nancy, is born in Lower Moreland Township, Pennsylvania, USA.

Sunday, February 26, 2012

1378 (-) 201st Pope Gregorius XI originally Pierre Roger de Beaufort, dies in Rome, Italy.1802 (+) Writer Victor Marie Hugo is born in Besançon, France.1829 (+) Clothing manufacturer Levi Löb Strauss is born in Buttenheim, Bavaria, Germany.1846 (+) Bison hunter and showman William Frederick Cody aka Buffalo Bill, is born in Le Claire, Iowa, USA.1852 (-) Mass-murderess Helène Jegado is executed by the Guillotine at the age of 49 in Rennes, Champ-de-Mars, France.She is believed to have murdered as many as 36 people with arsenic over a period of 18 years.1852 (+) Advocate of dietary reform John Harvey Kellogg is born in Tyrone, Michigan, USA.1908 (+) Animation artist Frederick “Tex” Bean Avery is born in Taylor, Texas, USA.1909 (-) Murderer C. Y. Timmons is executed by hanging at the age of 38 in Oregon, USA.1914 (-) Murderer George Ball is executed by hanging at the age of 22 in Liverpool, Walton Prison, United Kingdom.1918 (x) Over 3000 Die in Provence crusier shipwreck in the Mediterranean Sea.1928 (+) Musician Antoine Dominique “Fats” Domino is born in New Orleans, Louisiana, USA.1932 (+) Musician and one-time-criminal Johnny Cash aka The Man in Black, is born in Kingsland, Arkansas, USA.1943 (-) First commander of Dachau-KZ Theodor Eicke dies in a plane-crash while performing a battlefield reconnaissance during the opening stages of the Third Battle of Kharkov at the age of 50 in Artelnoye, USSR.1943 (x) The first transport of Gypsies arrives in Buchenwald-KZ, Germany.1943 (-) Murderer William E. Wallace is executed by the Gas Chamber at the age of 54 in Oregon, USA.1958 (+) Writer Michel Thomas Houellebecq is born in Réunion, France.

1959 (x) Peter Paul Rubens’ “Hollensturz der Verdammten” is attacked with acid by 57-year-old Kurt Walmen in München, Alte Pinakothek, Germany.1971 (-) Actor Fernand Contandin aka Fernandel, dies of cancer at the age of 67 in Paris, Avenue Foch, France.1971 (-) Lynda Kanes is presumably strangled and beaten to death by Zodiac at the age of 20 in Angwin, California, USA.Her body is found 8 days later, nude and wrapped in an American flag.1978 (-) Poisoness of her mother, husband, mother-in-law and son, Audrey Marie Hilley dies of a heart attack due to hypothermia at the age of 53 in Blue Mountain, Vermont, USA.She jumped parole and wandered through the woods for 5 days.1984 (-) Rosario Gonzalez is abducted and killed by Christopher Wilder aka The Beauty Queen Killer, at the age of 20 in Miami, Florida, USA.1998 (-) Psychiatric patient and artist Shirley Ardell Mason aka Sybil (Isabel Dorsett), dies of breast cancer at the age of 75 in Lexington, Kentucky, USA.2000 (-) Xenophobic Serial Bomber Franz Fuchs commits suicide by hanging in his prison cell with the cable of an electric razor at the age of 50 in Gralla, Styria, Austria.

Saturday, February 25, 2012

1500 (+) Emperor of Germany, Charles is born in Gent, East Flanders, Belgium.1841 (+) Artist Pierre Auguste Renoir is born in Limoges, Haute-Vienne, France.1842 (+) Writer Karl Friedrich May known for Winnetou and Old Shatterhand, is born in Ernstthal, Saxony, Germany.1865 (-) Jane Taylor is poisoned by Dr. Edward Pritchard in Glasgow, Scotland, United Kingdom.1873 (+) Tenor Enrico Caruso is born in Napoli, Italy.1879 (-) Charles Frederick Peace aka The Murderous Musician, is executed by hanging at the age of 46 in Leeds, Armley Gaol, West Yorkshire, United Kingdom."Lion-hearted I've lived, And when my time comes Lion-hearted I'll die." 1894 (+) Guru Meher Baba originally Merwan Sheriar Irani aka The Silent Avatar, is born in Pune, India.1899 (-) Journalist and founder of the Reuters news agency Paul Julius Freiherr von Reuter aka Joseph Josephat, dies at the age of 82 in Nice, Villa Reuter, France.1917 (+) Writer Anthony Burgess is born in Manchester, Harpurhey, United Kingdom.1920 (+) Cult-leader Sun Myung Moon is born in Sangsa-ri, North Korea.1921 (+) Minister of Labour Pierre Laporte aka Minister of Unemployment and Assimilation, is born in Quebec, Canada.

1922 (-) Serial Killer Henri Desiré Landru aka The Bluebeard Murderer, is executed by the Guillotine at the age of 52 in Paris, France.1931 (+) Serial Killer Eric Edgar Cooke aka The Australian Nightmare, is born in Perth, Australia.1943 (+) Beatle George Harrison aka L’Angelo Misterioso, is born in Liverpool, United Kingdom.1945 (+) Japanese minister of Agriculture Toshikatsu Matsuoka is born in Aso, Kumamoto, Japan.1953 (+) Artist Martin Kippenberger is born in Dortmund, NordRhein-Westfalen, Germany.1957 (+) IRA-member Raymond Peter McCreesh originally Réamann Mac Raois, is born in Camlough, Armagh, Ireland.1959 (+) Murderer Ricky Lee Sanderson is born in North Carolina, USA.1964 (-) Artist Alexander Porfyrovych Archipenko dies at the age of 76 in New York, New York, USA.1967 (x) 35-year-old Serial Killer Albert DeSalvo aka The Boston Strangler, escapes from Bridgewater Hospital but is arrested 2 days later in Lynn, Massachussets, USA.1969 (-) Revolutionary student Jan Zajic commits suicide by self-immolation at the age of 18 in Prague, Wenceslas Square, Czechoslowakia.1970 (-) Artist Mark Rothko originally Marcus Rothkowitz, commits suicide by slashing his wrists at the age of 66 in New York, New York, USA.1978 (+) Son of Kelly Boyd and Kenneth Bianchi aka The Hillside Strangler, Ryan Bianchi is born in Los Angeles, California, USA.1980 (-) Michael Gluck is beaten to death by Randy Kraft aka The Freeway Killer, in Goshen, Oregon, USA.1980 (-) Cassidy Johnson aka ‘Muffin’, is smothered by Christine Falling aka The Baby-Sitter, at the age of 2 in Blountstown, Florida, USA.1981 (-) Jill Martin is sexually assaulted by Randy Woodfield aka The I-5 Killer, at the age of 18 in Corvallis, Oregon, USA.She survived.1982 (x) 22-year-old Performance artist Danny Devos aka DDV, performs 'Resonantiepunktie' in an exhibition of Anne-Mie Van Kerckhoven aka AMVK in Antwerpen, Zeno X Gallery, Antwerp, Belgium.1983 (-) Writer Tennessee Thomas Lanier Williams chokes to death on an eyedrop bottle cap at the age of 71 in New York, New York, USA.The police report, however, suggested his use of drugs and alcohol contributed to his death.1990 (x) 87 die in Happy Land Social Club fire, by Arsonist Julio Gonzales because of a row with his girlfriend and his eviction from the club in New York, The Bronx, New York, USA.1994 (x) Mass Murderer Baruch Goldstein opens fire on Muslim worshipers in the Tomb of the Patriarchs in Hebron, West Bank, Israël.He killed 29 of them before being bludgeoned to death by survivors.1995 (-) Writer James Herriot originally James Alfred Wight, dies of prostate cancer at the age of 78 in Thrilby, United Kingdom.2005 (x) 60-year-old Serial Killer Dennis Lynn Rader aka The BTK Killer, is arrested in Park City, 6022 61st and Independence, Kansas, USA.2007 (-) Murderer Richard Head Williams is executed by lethal injection in Huntsville Prison, Texas, USA.

Friday, February 24, 2012

1732 (-) Aristocrat Francis Charteris aka The Rape-Master General, dies at the age of 56 in Edinburgh, Scotland, United Kingdom.1767 (-) Murderer Patrick Redmond is executed by hanging in the United Kingdom.After 28 minutes he was declared dead, he was taken down and revived after 6 hours by the use of bronchotomy.1786 (+) Philologist and folklorist Wilhelm Carl Grimm is born in Hanau, Germany.1875 (x) 102 Die in SS Gothenburg shipwreck on the Great Barrier Reef in Queensland, Australia.1922 (+) Pop Art pioneer Richard Hamilton is born in London, Pimlico, United Kingdom.1939 (-) Murderer Franklin Pierce McCall is executed by hanging at the age of 23 in Florida, USA.1949 (+) Spree Killer Randy Greenawalt is born in Arizona, USA.1949 (+) Rote Armee Fraktion “Bewegung 2. Juni” member Thomas Weisbecker is born in Freiburg im Breisgau, Germany.1953 (-) Parenticider Miles Giffard is executed by hanging at the age of 26 in Bristol, United Kingdom.1953 (-) War leader Gerd Karl Rudolf von Rundstedt dies at the age of 77 in Hannover, Germany.1954 (+) Musician Roger Marie François Jouret aka Plastic Bertrand, is born in Brussels, Brabant, Belgium.1955 (+) Spree Killer Woo Bum-kon is born in Gyeongsangnam-do, South Korea.1956 (-) Sex-murderer Arthur Ross Brown is executed by the Gas Chamber in State Prison, Missouri, USA.1960 (-) Murderer Earl Steward is executed by the Gas Chamber at the age of 41 in Nevada, USA.1969 (x) 17-year-old Serial Killer Gustaaf Wilfried André Van Eyken aka De Vampier van Muizen, escapes from reformatory school to the Netherlands in Ruiselede, Antwerp, Belgium.1972 (x) 98 Die in department-store fire in Sao Paulo, Brazil.1972 (-) Frank Aguirre is tortured and strangled by Dean Corll aka The Candyman, at the age of 19 in Houston, Texas, USA.1973 (x) 20-year-old Carol Anne Baglin is beaten to death to purify her of lusting sexual thoughts by Robert William Jacobson aka David Phipps, Toni Antoinette Denise White, James Cyril Cendrillon and Alphons Joseph Klimek in Hampton, United Kingdom.1987 (x) 28-year-old Serial Killer Joel David Rifkin his father Ben commits suicide by a pain-killer overdose in New York, New York, USA.1999 (-) Murderer Karl Hinze LaGrand is executed by lethal injection at the age of 35 in State Prison, Florence, Arizona, USA.1999 (-) Murderer Norman Green is executed by lethal injection in Huntsville Prison, Texas, USA.2000 (-) Double murderess Betty Lou Beets is executed by lethal injection at the age of 62 in Huntsville Prison, Texas, USA.She had been convicted of shooting her fifth husband Jimmy Don Beets on August 6, 1983. Also found buried in a garage were the remains of Doyle Wayne Barker, another husband of her.

2006 (-) Actor Dennis Weaver dies of cancer at the age of 81 in Ridgway, Colorado, USA.2010 (x) 27-year-old Juvenile murderer Jon Venables is arrested on allegations of possessing child pornography in United Kingdom.

Thursday, February 23, 2012

632 (x) Prophet and founder of Islam Muhammad ibn ‘Abdullah delivers his Last Sermon aka Khutbatul Wada' in Mecca, Saudi Arabia.1417 (+) 211th Pope Paul II originally Pietro Barbo, is born in Venice, Italy.1447 (-) 207th Pope Eugenius IV originally Gabriele Condulmer, dies at the age of 109 in Rome, Italy, 1685 (+) Composer Georg Friedrich Handel is born in Halle, Germany.1848 (-) 5th president of the USA John Quincy Adams dies of a cerebral hemorrhage at the age of 80 in Washington, Capitol Building, Speaker's Room, District Columbia, USA.1850 (+) Hotelier César Ritz is born in Niederwald, Switzerland.1878 (+) Suprematist artist Kazimir Severinovich Malevich is born in Kiev, USSR.1885 (x) Murderer John Lee aka The Man They Couldn’t Hang, is brought upon the scaffold 3 times to be hanged, but the trapdoor refuses to open upon each attempt. He will at last be repreived in Exeter Jail, United Kingdom.1897 (-) Celestin Gautrais is stabbed to death by Joseph Vacher aka L’Eventreur du Sud-Est, in France.1904 (+) Leader of the ‘Rote Kapelle’ spy-ring Leopold Trepper is born in Nowy Targ, Poland.1906 (-) Murderer of his 24 wives Johan Hoch is executed by hanging in Chicago, Illinois, USA.1924 (-) 28th president of the USA Thomas Woodrow Wilson dies at the age of 67 in Washington, District Columbia, USA.1930 (-) Nazi activist Horst Ludwig Wessel known for “Die Fahne Hoch” aka Das Horst-Wessel-Lied, dies due to injuries after an assault on 14 January 1930 at the age of 22 in Berlin, Germany.1930 (-) Hildegard Eid is attacked by Peter Kürten aka The Düsseldorfer Monster aka The Vampire of Düsseldorf, at the age of 24 in Düsseldorf, Germany.She survived.1931 (-) Cop Killer ‘Iron’ Irene Schroder aka Tiger Girl, is executed by Old Sparky in Rockview Penitentiary, Pennsylvania, USA.She was the first woman to die in the Pennsylvania Electric Chair.1931 (+) Pop artist Tom Wesselmann is born in Cincinnati, Ohio, USA.1937 (-) An unidentified woman is hacked to death by The Mad Butcher of Cleveland in Cleveland, Lake Erie, East 156th street, Ohio, USA.1939 (+) Actor Peter Fonda is born in New York, New York, USA.1944 (+) Musician Johnny John Dawson III Winter is born in Beaumont, Texas, USA.1944 (-) Inventor of Bakelite Leo Hendrik Baekeland dies of cerebral hemorrhage at the age of 80 in Beacon, New York, USA.1946 (x) 28-year-old Serial Killer Neville George Clevely Heath aka The Sadistic Romeo, is found whipping an unidentified girl in London, Strand Palace Hotel, United Kingdom.

Wednesday, February 22, 2012

1649 (+) 245th Pope Benedictus XIII originally Pietro Francesco Orsini, is born in Gravina, Puglio, Italy.1732 (+) 1st president of the USA George Washington is born in Bridges Creek, Virginia, USA.1788 (+) Philosopher Arthur Schopenhauer is born in Sztutowo, Poland.1797 (-) Adventurer and outrageous tale teller Baron Karl Friedrich Hieronymus von Münchhausen dies at the age of 76 in Bodenwerder, Germany.1807 (-) Murderers John Holloway, Owen Hagggerty and Elisabeth Godfrey are executed by hanging in London, outside Newgate Prison, United Kingdom.In the crowd of nearly 40.000 spectators over 100 were trampled to death, and many more injured.1884 (+) Writer, journalist, occultist and explorer William Buehler Seabrook aka The White Cannibal of New York, is born in Westminster, Maryland, USA.1896 (+) Poet Paul Van Ostaijen aka Mister 1830, is born in Antwerpen, Antwerp, Belgium.1899 (+) Actor in many Universal horror movies Dwight Iliff Fry is born in Salina, Kansas, USA.1900 (+) Filmmaker Luis Bunuel known for “Un Chien Andalou”, is born in Calanda, Spain.1915 (x) 70-year-old Actress Sarah Henrietta Rosine Bernhardt has her right leg amputated in the United Kingdom.1921 (+) Military Ruler Jean Bédel Salah Eddine Ahmed Bokassa is born in Bobangi, Moyen-Congo.1928 (+) Founder of the Nation of Gods and Earths Clarence 13X originally Clarence Smith aka The Father, is born in Danville, Virginia, USA.1937 (x) 28-year-old Serial Killer and leader of the Sala Gang Sigvard Sven Emil Nilsson Thurneman aka The Doctor, is considered mentally sick and sent to psychiatric care for life in Västerås, Sweden.The other gang members, Eric Hedström, Roland Abrahamsson, Herbert Jansson and Åke Lindberg were sentenced to life imprisonment.1942 (-) Writer Stefan Zweig commits suicide by an overdose of Veronal at the age of 60 in Rio de Janeiro, Petropolis, Brazil.His girlfriend Lotte joins him in death.1942 (x) The first ‘low-pressure’ experiments are carried out on prisoners of war by 61-year-old Nazi-doctor and aeronautic experimentor Hans August Rascher in Dachau-KZ, Germany.1942 (+) Model and showgirl Christine Keeler known from the Profumo Affair, is born in Uxbridge, Middlesex, United Kingdom.1943 (-) Leader of The White Rose resistance group Sophie Magdalene Scholl is executed by the Guillotine at the age of 21 in München, Stadelheim Prison, Germany.Her brother Hans and their friend Christoph Probst were also executed, convicted of high treason after having been found distributing anti-war leaflets at the University of Munich.1944 (+) Filmmaker Jonathan Demme is born in Baldwin, New York, USA.1950 (+) Musician Genesis P-Orridge is born in Manchester, United Kingdom.1950 (+) Actress Sylvette Herry aka Miou-Miou, is born in Paris, France.1952 (+) Rote Armee Fraktion 2nd Generation member Werner Lotze is born in Mühlheim-an-den-Ruhr, Germany.1953 (+) National Hero Romas Kalanta aka The Young Man with the Mesmerizing Eyes, is born in Kaunas, Lithuania.1960 (x) 123 Die in coal-mine explosion in Zwickau, Germany.1968 (-) Patricia Docker is strangled by The Bible John Killer at the age of 25 in Glasgow, United Kingdom.1973 (x) Over 200 Die in ferry and freighter collision in Rangoon, Birma.1974 (x) 23-year-old Serial Killer Randy Randall Brent Woodfield aka The I-5 Killer, is arrested and charged with public indecency in Portland, Oregon, USA.1974 (-) Would-be Assassin of President Richard Nixon, Samuel Joseph Byck commits suicide by a shot in the head at the age of 44 in Baltimore/Washington International Airport, Maryland, USA.He attempted to hijack the Delta Air Lines Flight 523 DC-9 to Atlanta and crash it into the White House. Two people died in a shootout before he shot himself.1984 (-) Marta Rjabenko is stabbed to death and her nipples and uterus cut away by Andrej Tsjikatilo aka The Rostow Ripper, in Rostow, Fliegerpark, Russia.

1987 (-) Artist and filmmaker Andy Andrew Warhol aka The Pope of Pop, dies of a heart attack at the age of 59 in New York, New York, USA.He died in his sleep after recovering from a gall-operation.1998 (-) Serial Killer Pietro Pacciani aka Il Mostre, dies of cardiac arrest due to a fatal combination of drugs at the age of 73 in Florence, Italy.2007 (-) Double murderer Newton Anderson is executed by lethal injection in Huntsville Prison, Texas, USA.

Tuesday, February 21, 2012

1513 (-) 216th Pope Julius II originally Giuliano Della Rovere, dies at the age of 60 in Rome, Italy.1677 (-) Philosopher Baruch de Spinoza dies at the age of 44 in Amsterdam, the Netherlands.1848 (x) Economist Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels publish the Communist Manifesto in London, United Kingdom.1876 (+) Artist Constantin Brancusi is born in Pestiani, Goj, Romania.1903 (+) Erotic writer Anaïs Nin originally Angela Anaïs Juana Antolina Rosa Edelmira Nin y Culmell, is born in Neuilly, France.1907 (x) 142 Die in SS Berlin shipwreck in Hoek van Holland, the Netherlands.1910 (+) Supreme Maffia-boss Carmine Galante aka Lillo the Cigar, is born in New York, New York, USA.1925 (+) Filmmaker Sam Peckinpah aka The Picasso of Violence, is born in Fresno, California, USA.1925 (x) Inauguration of a monument in memory of the victims of Serial Killer Fritz Friedrich Heinrich Karl Haarmann aka Der Hannover Werwolf, in Hannover, Stocken-cemetary Abteilung 49D/189-192, Germany.1925 (+) Cop Killer Ronald Joseph Ryan is born in Carlton, Victoria, Australia.1930 (-) Murderess Eva Dugan is executed by hanging at the age of 52 in State Prison, Florence, Arizona, USA.She was the only woman ever executed in Arizona. In a gruesome footnote during the execution, her body separated from her head, which rolled at the feet of the spectators.1933 (+) Singer, songwriter and civil rights activist Nina Simone aka The High Priestess of Soul, is born in Tyron, North Carolina, USA.1944 (+) Poet Herman De Coninck is born in Mechelen, Antwerp, Belgium.

1965 (-) Revolutionary leader Malcolm X originally Malcolm Little aka El-Hajj Malik El-Shabazz, is shot in the chest with a sawed-off shotgun by Thomas Hagan at the age of 39 in Manhattan, Audubon Ballroom,, New York, USA.1972 (x) Eight members of the Baader-Meinhof-Gruppe Rote Armee Fraktion, rob the Hypo-Bank of 285.000 marks in Ludwigshafen, Germany.1973 (x) 108 Die in Libyan Arab Airlines Flight 114 Boeing 727-224 crash in the Sinaï Desert.The plane was shot down by Israeli Jet-fighters.1995 (-) Murderer Samual Hawkins is executed by lethal injection in Huntsville Prison, Texas, USA.

Monday, February 20, 2012

1431 (-) 206th Pope Martinus V originally Oddone Colonna, dies at the age of 93 in Rome, Italy.1867 (-) Murderer Martin W. Bates is executed by hanging in Burlingame, Kansas, USA.1895 (+) Henri Valéry , an alias used by Marcel Petiot, The Triangular Chamber of Death, is born in Elbeuf, Seine-Maritime, France.1904 (+) USSR-prime minister Alexej Kosygin is born in St. Petersburg, Russia.1909 (x) 32-year-old Artist Emilio Filippo Tommaso Marinetti publishes the Futurist Manifesto in the Le Figaro newspaper in Paris, France.1911 (-) Mass-poisoner John James Hutchinson commits suicide by Prussic acid in Newcastle-Upon-Tyne, United Kingdom.1912 (+) Writer Pierre François Marie Louis Boulle known for “Planet of the Apes”, is born in Avignon, France.1925 (+) Filmmaker Robert Altman is born in Kansas City, Montana, USA.1926 (-) Clara Newman is raped and strangled by Earle Leonard Nelson aka The Gorilla Murderer, at the age of 60 in San Francisco, California, USA.1927 (+) Actor Sidney Poitier is born in Miami, Florida, USA.1941 (-) Lisa Nowak is beaten to death by Paul Ogorzow aka Der Schnell-Bahn Mörder, at the age of 30 in Berlin, Germany.1954 (+) Patty Patricia Campbell Hearst aka The Born-again Terrorist, is born in San Francisco, California, USA.1960 (+) Murderer and son of Joseph Kallinger aka The Shoemaker, Joey Kallinger is born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA.1962 (x) 40-year-old Astronaut John Herschel Glenn is the first US-astronaut to fly around the earth in Space.1967 (+) Musician Kurt Donald Cobain aka The Pope of Grunge, is born in Seattle, Washington, USA.1971 (x) 46-year-old Dictator Idi Amin Dada is chosen for president by the army in Uganda.1987 (x) 44-year-old Theodore Ted Kaczinski aka The UnaBomber, places a booby trap behind the CAAMs computer store in Salt Lake City, Utah, USA.One person is injured when moving the package.1991 (-) Murderer Lawrence Buxton is executed by lethal injection in Huntsville, Texas, USA.1993 (-) Car designer Ferrucio Elio Arturo Lamborghini dies of a heart attack at the age of 76 in Perugia, Umbria, Italy.2002 (-) Murderer Robert Frederick Glass dies of a heart attack in Avery-Mitchell Correctional Institute, North Carolina, USA.He had fulfilled his victim's wish to be tortured and strangled to death.

2005 (-) Writer Hunter Stockton Thompson aka the Creator of Gonzo Journalism, commits suicide by a shot in the head at the age of 67 in Woody Creek, Colorado, USA."No More Games. No More Bombs. No More Walking. No More Fun. No More Swimming. 67. That is 17 years past 50. 17 more than I needed or wanted. Boring. I am always bitchy. No Fun—for anybody. 67. You are getting Greedy. Act your old age. Relax—This won't hurt."

Sunday, February 19, 2012

1473 (+) Astronomer Nicolaus Copernicus is born in Torun, Poland.1725 (-) Innkeeper Mme Millet dies of spontaneous human combustion in Rheims, France.1880 (+) General Alvaro Obregon is born in San Angel, Mexico.1898 (+) Cult leader Lauwrens ‘Lou’ Voorthuyzen aka De Palingboer, is born in the Netherlands.1924 (+) Actor Lee Marvin is born in New York, New York, USA.1943 (-) Murderer James C. Rawlins is executed by the Gas Chamber at the age of 46 in State Prison, Florence, Arizona, USA.1946 (+) Anti-Nuclear activist Karen Gay Silkwood is born in Longview, Texas, USA.1951 (-) Murderer Jean Lee is executed by hanging at the age of 33 in Sydney, Pentridge Jail, New South Wales, Australia.1951 (-) Murderer Robert David Clayton is executed by hanging in Sydney, Pentridge Jail, New South Wales, Australia.1951 (-) Murderer Norman Andrews is executed by hanging in Sydney, Pentridge Jail, New South Wales, Australia.1951 (-) Writer André Gide dies at the age of 81 in Paris, France.1951 (+) Triple Murderer Stephen Peter Morin is born in USA.1952 (-) Writer Knut Hamsun dies at the age of 92 in Grimstad, Nørholm, Norway.1958 (x) 180 Die in coal-mine explosion in Asanoi, India.1963 (-) Musician Beny Moré aka El Barbaro Del Ritmo, originally Bartolome Maximilliano, dies of cirrhosis of the liver at the age of 43 in Havana, Cuba.1966 (-) Stanislawa S. is attacked by Zdzislaw Marchwicki aka The Wampir, at the age of 45 in Grudkow, Poland.She survived.

1980 (-) Musician Bon Ronald Belford Scott known from AC/DC, dies of pulmonary aspiration of vomit at the age of 33 in London, United Kingdom.He was left to sleep in a car at 67 Overhill Road in East Dulwich, South London after he passed out after a night of heavy drinking in the Music Machine club.1985 (x) 148 Die in Iberia Boeing crash in Bilbao, Spain.It collided into a mountain.1989 (+) Daughter of Tex Watson of the Manson Family, Mary Elisabeth Watson is born in Texas, USA.1999 (-) Murderer Wilford Berry aka The Volunteer, is executed by lethal injection at the age of 36 in Southern Correctional Facility, Lucasville, Ohio, USA.He was the first person to be executed in Ohio since 1963.2002 (-) Murderer John W. Byrd is executed by lethal injection in Southern Correctional Facility, Lucasville, Ohio, USA.2009 (x) Performance artist Danny Devos aka DDV, performs 'Oprichting en Manifest van het Bastardisme' at a literary event in Brussel, Passa Porta, Brabant, Belgium.

Saturday, February 18, 2012

1455 (-) Artist Fra Angelico originally Guido di Pietro, dies at the age of 60 in Rome, Italy.1516 (+) Queen Mary Tudor aka Bloody Mary, is born in Greenwich, United Kingdom.1546 (-) Reformer Martin Luther dies of an apoplectic stroke at the age of 62 in Eisleben, Germany.1564 (-) Artist Buonarotti Michelangelo dies of a stroke at the age of 89 in Rome, Italy.1745 (+) Physicist Alessandro Guiseppe Antonio Anastasio Volta is born in Como, Italy.1892 (+) Mass-Murderer Sadamichi Hirasawa aka Jiro Yamaguchi, is born in Japan.1896 (+) Writer André Breton aka The Father of Surrealism, is born in Tinchebray, Orne, France.1903 (+) USSR-leader Nikolay Viktorovitsch Podgorny is born in Russia.1906 (+) Pediatrician Hans Asperger is born in Vienna, Austria.1919 (+) Actor Jack Palance originally Volodymyr Palahnyuk, is born in Hazle Township, Pennsylvania, USA.1932 (+) Filmmaker Milos Jan Tomá Forman is born in áslav, Czechoslowakia.1933 (+) Artist Yoko Ono is born in Tokyo, Japan.1949 (-) Olive Durand-Deacon is shot dead and dumped in sulphuric acid by John George Haigh aka The Acid Bath Murderer, at the age of 69 in Crawley, Leopold Road, Sussex, United Kingdom.1954 (+) Actor John Travolta is born in Englewood, New Jersey, USA.1956 (+) Rote Armee Fraktion 3rd Generation member Horst Ludwig Meyer is born in Villingen-Schwenningen, Germany.1961 (x) Serial Rapist Ted Edward John Louis Paisnel aka The Beast of Jersey, assaults an unidentified 12-year-old boy in Mont Cochon, Jersey.1963 (-) Gertrude Gruen is attacked and raped by Albert DeSalvo aka The Boston Strangler, in Boston, Massachussets, USA.She survived.

1967 (-) Scientist and Father of the Atomic Bomb, Robert Julius Oppenheimer dies of throat cancer at the age of 62 in Princeton, New Jersey, USA.1972 (x) The California Supreme Court vote 6 to 1 to abolish the Death Penalty in California, USA.1972 (x) 26-year-old Performance artist Chris Burden starts his performance "Bed Piece" in Venice, Market Street, California, USA.It lasted until 10 March 1972.1973 (x) An ultra-right commando steals the coffin of Marshall Philippe Henri Benoni Omer Joseph Pétain and re-buries it near the Battlefield in Verdun, France.1982 (-) Detective-writer Ngaio Edith Marsh dies at the age of 86 in New Zealand.1983 (x) Fourteen people are gunned down during a robbery by Kwan Fai "Willie" Mak, Wai-Chiu "Tony" Ng, and Benjamin Ng in Seattle, Wah Mee Club, Washington, USA.Only Wai Y. Chin survived the massacre and later testified in court against the three robbers.1991 (-) Curtis Straughter is drugged, strangled and dismembered by Jeffrey Dahmer aka The Milwaukee Cannibal, at the age of 19 in Milwaukee, 924 25th North Street, Oxford Apartments, Room 213, Wisconsin, USA.1991 (x) Two IRA bombs explode in London, Paddington and Victoria stations, United Kingdom.1997 (-) Joyce Dickerson is strangled by Alfred Gaynor at the age of 37 in Springfield, downtown, Massachussets, USA.2001 (-) Artist Balthasar de Rola Klossowski aka Balthus, dies at the age of 93 in Rossinière, Switzerland.2008 (-) Writer and filmmaker Alain Robbe-Grillet dies of heart failure at the age of 85 in Caen, France.

Friday, February 17, 2012

1600 (-) Philosopher and mathematician Giordano Filippo Bruno is executed by burning at the stake at the age of 52 in Rome, Campo de' Fiori, Italy.When the fire had died out his ashes were dumped into the Tiber river.1673 (-) Playwriter Jean-Baptiste Poquelin Molière dies of an imagined disease causing vomiting of blood at the age of 51 in Paris, France.1848 (+) Last Official Executioner of Sweden Albert Gustaf Anders Dahlman is born in Sweden.1854 (+) Artillery-engineer Friedrich Alfred Krupp is born in Essen, Germany.1856 (-) Poet Heinrich Christian Johann Heine dies of multiple sclerosis at the age of 58 in Paris, France.1909 (-) Last Chief of the Chiricahua Apaches, Goyathlay Geronimo aka The One Who Yawns, dies of pneumonia after he fell from his horse and lay in the cold all night at the age of 79 in Fort Sill, Oklahoma, USA.1929 (+) Writer and Rabbi Chaim Herman Harold Potok is born in The Bronx, New York, USA.1929 (+) Actress Patricia Katherine Routledge aka Hyacinth Bucket, is born in Birkenhead, Wirral, Merseyside, United Kingdom.1934 (-) Third King of Belgium Albert I originally Albert Léopold Clément Marie Meinrad, falls off a mountain at the age of 58 in Marche-les-Dames, Belgium.1942 (+) Black Panther Huey Percy Newton is born in Monroe, Louisiana, USA.1970 (x) 26-year-old Murderer Jeffrey Robert MacDonald stabs his pregnant wife Colette and two daughters 5-year-old Kimberley and 2-year-old Kristen to death in a self-created Manson-inspired attack in Fort Bragg, North Carolina, USA.1974 (x) 48 Die in soccer riot during the game Zamalek-Dukla Prague in Egypt.1981 (+) Heiress and media personality Paris Whitney Hilton is born in New York City, New York, USA.1982 (-) Composer Thelonius Sphere Monk dies of a stroke at the age of 64 in New York, New York, USA.1984 (-) Sigurd Bessener is strangled by Waldemar Stepinski aka The Doorbell Killer, at the age of 81 in Berlin, Schöneberg, Germany.

Thursday, February 16, 2012

1770 (+) Porter Zaro Agha is born in Turkey.He became the oldest man in the world and died at the age of 164.1848 (+) Writer Octave Mirbeau is born in Trévières, France.1899 (-) President of France Félix Faure dies in the act of making love to murderess Marguerite Steinheil at the age of 50 in Paris, France.1917 (-) Writer Octave Mirbeau dies at the age of 69 in Paris, France.1923 (x) 48-year-old Archaeologist Howard Carter opens the inner chamber of the tomb and first sees the sarcophagus of Pharaoh Tutankhamun in the Valley of the Kings in Luxor, Egypt.1926 (+) Filmmaker John Richard Schlesinger is born in London, United Kingdom.1935 (+) Musician and born-again politician Sonny Salvatore Phillip Bono known from Sonny & Cher, is born in Detroit, Michigan, USA.1942 (+) Supreme Leader of the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea Jong-il Kim originally Yuri Irsenovich Kim, is born in Vyatskoye, Khabarovsk Krai, Russia.Official North Korean records say he was born in Mt. Baekdu, Japanese Korea.1942 (x) 28-year-old Serial Killer Gordon Frederick Cummins aka The Blackout Ripper, is arrested in London, United Kingdom.1954 (-) Wife-murderer and matricider Donald Merret aka Ronald Chesney, commits suicide by a shot through the head at the age of 46 in Köln, Germany.1954 (+) Mass Murderer Hastings Arthur Wise is born in South Carolina, USA.1955 (x) Over 100 Die in elderly home fire in Yokohama, Japan.

1958 (-) Serial Killer Rudolf Pleil aka Der Großten Todmacher, commits suicide by hanging in his prison cell at the age of 33 in Hannover, Zuchthaus Celle, Germany.1962 (+) Coil musician John or Jhonn Balance originally Geff Rushton, is born in Mansfield, Nottinghamshire, United Kingdom.1963 (-) Constance Madrill is raped and strangled by Eric Edgar Cooke aka The Australian Nightmare, in West Perth, Western, Australia.1965 (-) Bridget O’Hara aka Bridget Moore, is found naked and dead, choked to death by Jack the Stripper at the age of 27 in London, United Kingdom.1970 (x) 150 Die in train derailment in Nigeria.Afterwards 52 ‘survivors’ died in a truck crash.1972 (-) Leslie Richardson is attacked by Donald Neilson originally Donald Nappey aka The Black Panther Killer, in Heywood, Lancashire, United Kingdom.1978 (-) Cindy Hudspeth is raped and strangled by Kenneth Bianchi aka The Hillside Strangler, at the age of 20 in Los Angeles, Glendale, 703 East Colorado Street, California, USA.1978 (-) William Kindred aka Billy Shotgun, is strangled by John Gacy aka The Killer Clown, at the age of 19 in Chicago, Des Plaines, Illinois, USA.1979 (-) Lila Bratislav is raped and strangled by Metod Torinus aka The Vampire Killer, at the age of 20 in Kocevska Reka, Yugoslavia.1990 (-) Artist Keith Haring dies of AIDS at the age of 31 in New York, New York, USA.1995 (-) Murderer Billy Gardener is executed by lethal injection in Huntsville Prison, Texas, USA.1999 (-) Triple Murderer Johnie Michael Cox is executed by lethal injection at the age of 42 in Varner, Arkansas, USA.1999 (-) Triple murderer Andrew Cantu is executed by lethal injection at the age of 30 in Huntsville Prison, Texas, USA.2000 (-) Cop Killer Anthony Lee Chaney is executed by lethal injection at the age of 45 in Florence, State Prison, Arizona, USA.

Wednesday, February 15, 2012

1564 (+) Scientist Galileo Galilei is born in Pisa, Italy.1877 (+) Automobile pioneer Louis Renault is born in Paris, France.1909 (x) Over 250 Die in Flores Theatre fire in Acapulco, Mexico.1929 (+) World Champion Formule 1 Racing, Graham Hill is born in London, Hampstead, United Kingdom.1932 (-) Mary Ellen O’Connor is presumably abducted, killed and eaten by Albert Fish aka The Cannibal, at the age of 16 in New York, Manhattan, New York, USA.1933 (-) Chicago Mayor Anton Cermak is shot dead by Joseph Zangara in Chicago, Illinois, USA.Zangara actually tried to kill the 32nd president of the USA, Franklin Roosevelt.1939 (+) Serial Killer Robert Christian Hansen aka The Aviation Hunter, is born in Esterville, Coleman Hospital, Iowa, USA.1942 (x) Capitulation of Singapore in WWII, 138.000 British and Australian soldiers are taken as prisoners of war by the Japanese Army in Singapore.1954 (-) Annie Hamann is poisoned by Christa Lehmann aka the Mass Poisoner of Worms, in Worms, Germany.In view of the events, the German radio warns the public for the danger of buying poisoned sweets.1960 (-) Murderer Fernat Bournani kills 2 cops and is lynched by the public at the age of 28 in Paris, rue Notre Dame de Nazareth, France.1961 (x) 73 Die in Sabena Flight 548 Boeing 707 crash in Berg, Brabant, Belgium.Among the victims were the entire US figure skating association.1963 (-) Murderer Robert Griffin is executed by Old Sparky at the age of 44 in Ohio, USA.

1965 (-) Musician Nat ‘King’ Cole dies of lung cancer at the age of 45 in Santa Monica, California, USA.1966 (-) Revolutionary priest Camilo Torres Restrepo is shot dead by a military patrol at the age of 37 in El Carmen, Colombia.1970 (x) 102 Die in Dominican DC-9 crash during takeoff from Santo Domingo in the Carribean Sea.1974 (x) 55-year-old Writer Alexander Isaewitsch Solzhenitsyn is banned from the USSR in Moscow, Russia.1974 (-) Donald Skepper is shot dead by Donald Neilson originally Donald Nappey aka The Black Panther Killer, in Lancashire, United Kingdom.1978 (x) 31-year-old Serial Killer Ted Theodore Robert Bundy aka The Only Living Witness, is arrested ‘trying to evade a police-officer’ in Pensacola, Florida, USA.1982 (x) 84 Die in Ocean Ranger drilling rig sinking during a storm in Newfoundland.1983 (x) 40-year-old Serial Killer John Wayne Gacy aka The Killer Clown, is stabbed in the upper left arm and back by fellow inmate and multiple murderer Henry Brisbon in Menard Correctional Centre, Illinois, USA.1984 (-) US-Diplomat Leamon Hunt is shot dead by Red Brigades in Rome, Italy.2006 (-) Murderer Clyde Jr. Smith is executed by lethal injection in Huntsville Prison, Texas, USA.

Tuesday, February 14, 2012

1572 (+) Composer Hans Christoph Haiden is born in Germany.1779 (-) Explorer Captain James Cook is stabbed and beaten to death by natives at the age of 50 in Hawaï.Some of his flesh was cut and roasted from the bones.1859 (x) Oregon becomes the 33rd of the United States in the USA.1901 (-) Elizabeth Taylor is poisoned with tartar-emetic by Severin Klosowski aka George Chapman, in London, United Kingdom.1912 (x) Arizona becomes the 48th of the United States in the USA.1913 (+) Union-leader Jimmy Hoffa is born in Brazil, Indiana, USA.1929 (x) Gangsters Adam Meyer, Frank Foster, John May, Frank Clark, Al Weinshank and Frank Gusenberg are shot dead in the St. Valentine’s Day Massacre, arranged by 30-year-old Gangster Al Alphonse Capone in Chicago, Illinois, USA.1942 (x) Greta Hayward is attacked by Gordon Cummins aka The Blackout Ripper, Die in in London, Piccadilly Circus, United Kingdom.She survived1945 (-) Farmer Charles Watson is accused of witchcraft and ritually murdered by driving a pitfork into his chest and a sickle through his throat by persons unknown at the age of 74 in Meon Hill, Lower Quinton, United Kingdom.1947 (+) Musician Tim Buckley is born in Washington, District Columbia, USA.1950 (x) 25-year-old Serial Rapist Ted Edward John Louis Paisnel aka The Beast of Jersey, marries his first wife, Joan Davies in Wales, United Kingdom.1950 (-) Radio engineer and discoverer of cosmic radio sources Karl Guthe Jansky dies at the age of 44 in Oklahoma, USA.1957 (-) Murderer Winfred D. Moore is executed by hanging in Fort Leavenworth, Kansas, USA.1957 (-) Murderer Thomas J. Edwards is executed by hanging in Fort Leavenworth, Kansas, USA.1960 (x) Serial Rapist Ted Edward John Louis Paisnel aka The Beast of Jersey, assaults an unidentified 12-year-old schoolboy in Grands Vaux, Jersey.1967 (x) Over 150 graves are destroyed by an unidentified maniac who roams Belgian, German and Dutch cemetaries in Tilburg, the Netherlands.1969 (-) Mafia Leader Vito Genovese aka Don Vito, dies of a heart attack at the age of 71 in Springfield, United States Medical Center for Federal Prisoners, Missouri, USA.1972 (x) 112 Die in Caravelle crash in Dubai, India.The plane collided with a mountain.1974 (-) Writer Pelham ‘Plum’ Grenville Wodehouse dies of a heart attack at the age of 92 in New York, New York, USA.1974 (-) Isabella Griffiths is stabbed to death by Patrick Mackay aka Franklin Bollvolt the First, at the age of 84 in Chelsea, 19 Cheyne Walk, United Kingdom.1977 (-) Multiple murderer and self-styled Nazi Fred Cowan commits suicide by a shot through the head in New Rochelle, New York, USA.1979 (x) Melvin Reynolds confesses to the abduction and murder of Eric Christgen and is sentenced to life-imprisonment, although the murder was committed by 49-year-old Serial Killer Charles Ray Hatcher aka Evil Incarnate, in St. Joseph, Missouri, USA.1981 (-) Julie Reitz is shot dead by Randy Woodfield aka The I-5 Killer, at the age of 17 in Beaverton, Cherryhill Drive, Oregon, USA.1986 (-) Sadist murderer Marc Fasquel is shot dead by the police at the age of 37 in Montbequi, France.1989 (x) 41-year-old Writer Salman Rushdie is condemned to death by Ayatollah Khomeiny for his ‘Satanical Verses’ blasphemy in Teheran, Iran.1990 (x) 92 Die in Indian Airlines Flight 605 Airbus A-320 crash in Bangalore Airport, India.

1994 (-) Serial Killer Andrej Romanowitsch Tsjikatilo aka The Rostow Ripper, is executed by the Firing Squad at the age of 57 in Rostow, Russia.1996 (x) The Long March 3 rocket is launched in Xichang, Sichuan, China.The rocket flies off course 3 seconds after liftoff and crashes into a rural village.1997 (x) Serial Killer Ilshyat Kuzikov is arrested on suspicion of killing three of his vodka drinking buddies and eating their internal organs in St. Petersburg, Russia.The confessed cannibal said he killed his first victim in 1992 after inviting him to his flat for a nightcap. After sating his appetite Kuzikov dismembered his friends and put them in a garbage dump.1997 (x) 52-year-old Serial Killer Charles Gurmukh Sobhraj aka Bad Blood, is granted bail after spending two decades behind bars in New Delhi, India.Desperately trying to avoid extradition to Thailand, he said he would not leave jail until he received his identity papers from the French embassy.2003 (-) The first succesfully cloned sheep Dolly dies of progressive lung disease at the age of 6 in Edinburgh, Roslin Institute, Scotland, United Kingdom.Her stuffed remains are at the National Museum.2004 (-) Serial Killer Yang Xinhai is executed by hanging at the age of 35 in Hehan, China.2010 (x) 100 Die in The Station nightclub fire during a concert by Heavy Metal band Great White in West Warwick, Rhode Island, USA.Over 200 people are injured. The band's guitarist Ty Longly also dies in the fire.

Monday, February 13, 2012

1542 (-) Fifth wife of Henry VIII Katherine Howard aka The Rose without a Thorn, is executed by beheading in London, United Kingdom.She was charged with treason and adultery.1599 (+) 237th Pope Alexander VII originally Fabio Chigi, is born in Siena, Italy.1866 (x) 18-year-old Outlaw Jesse Woodson James hits his first bank, the Commercial Bank of Liberty in Missouri, USA.1883 (-) Composer Richard Wilhelm Wagner dies of heart failure at the age of 69 in Venice, Italy.1887 (+) Would-be assassin Richard Paul Pavlick is born in New Hampshire, USA.1891 (-) Frances Coles is presumably murdered by Jack the Ripper in London, United Kingdom.1903 (+) Writer Georges Joseph Christian Simenon is born in Liège, 26 rue Léopold, Liège, Belgium.1906 (+) Victim of Fritz Haarmann aka Der Hannover Werwolf, Richard Gräf is born in Hannover, Germany.1906 (-) Double murderer William A. Williams is executed by hanging in the United Kingdom.1914 (-) Criminologist Alphonse Bertillon dies at the age of 60 in Münsterlingen, Switzerland.1933 (+) Actress Kim Marilyn Pauline Novak is born in Chicago, Illinois, USA.1937 (x) 658 Die in theatre fire in Antung, China.1938 (+) Actor Oliver Robert Reed is born in London, Wimbledon, United Kingdom.1941 (+) Artist Sigmar Polke is born in Oelsnitz, Lower Silesia, Poland.1945 (x) Over 35.000 Die in the 4.000-tonnes RAF bombing in Dresden, Germany.1950 (+) Musician Peter Gabriel is born in Chobham, Surrey, United Kingdom.1960 (x) 25-year-old Vampire Florencio Roque Fernandez is arrested in Monteros, Argentina.1960 (x) 23-year-old Horst Otto confesses to the murder of Manuela Knodt, who was actually killed by Joachim Kroll aka The Ruhr Hunter in Essen, NordRhein-Westfalen, Germany.Otto will nevertheless be tried, found guilty and spend 8 years in jail.1960 (x) First French Atomic Bomb test in the Sahara.1964 (-) Nazi-Doctor Werner Heyde aka Fritz Sawade, commits suicide by hanging in his prison cell at the age of 61 in Frankfurt-am-Main, Germany.He was the leader of the T-4 programme, to extinct all the mentally deranged.1973 (-) Fred Perez aka Freddie Bell, is shot dead by Herbert Mullin at the age of 73 in Santa Cruz, California, USA.Mullin was arrested minutes later.1981 (-) Eta-member José Ignacio Arregui is tortured to death in prison at the age of 30 in Madrid, Spain.

1991 (-) Nazi Sculptor Arno Breker dies at the age of 90 in Düsseldorf, NordRhein-Westfalen, Germany.2007 (-) Fashion model Eliana Elle Ramos dies of anorexia nervosa at the age of 19 in Montevideo, Uruguay.She was the sister of model Luisel Ramos, who died of anorexia nervosa six months earlier.2010 (-) Multiple murderer and cop killer Viva Leroy Nash dies of natural causes at the age of 94 in Florence State Prison, Arizona, USA.He had a criminal record since the 1930s and escaped in 1982 while serving a life sentence. In 1993 he was sentenced to death.

Sunday, February 12, 2012

1804 (-) Philiosopher Immanuel Kant dies at the age of 79 in Königsberg, Prussia, Germany.1809 (+) Naturalist Charles Darwin is born in Mount House, Shrewsbury, Shropshire, United Kingdom.1809 (+) 16th president of the USA Abraham Lincoln is born in Larue, Hardin County, Kentucky, USA.1861 (+) Writer and psycho-analist Lou Andreas Salome is born in St. Petersburg, Russia.1867 (+) Writer Hedwig Courths-Mahler is born in Nebra, Germany.1882 (+) Ballerina Anna Pavlovna Matveïevna Pavlova known for The Dying Swan, is born in St. Petersburg, Ligovo, Russia.1884 (+) Artist Max Beckmann is born in Leipzig, Germany.1885 (-) Murderer Lewis Beach is executed by hanging at the age of 44 in Pennsylvania, USA.1893 (+) War Leader Omar Nelson Bradley is born in Clark, Missouri, USA.1907 (x) 131 Die in Larchmont Steamer shipwreck in Long Island, USA.1913 (-) Murderer Frederick A. Pulin is executed by Old Sparky in Dannemora, New York, USA.He was the last man executed by the electric chair in Clinton Prison.1918 (-) Black murderer Jim McIlherron lynched by burning and charred to the bone by a mob of 1200 in Estil Springs, Tennessee, USA.1923 (-) Fritz Franke is killed and his meat sold by Fritz Haarmann aka Der Hannover Werwolf, at the age of 16 in Hannover, Germany.1929 (-) Rudolf Scheer is stabbed to death by Peter Kürten aka The Düsseldorfer Monster aka The Vampire of Düsseldorf, at the age of 54 in Düsseldorf, NordRhein-Westfalen, Germany.Kurten also drank the blood of his victim.1942 (-) Doris Jouannet aka Doris Robson, is strangled and sexually mutilated as fourth victim by Gordon Cummins aka The Blackout Ripper, at the age of 43 in London, United Kingdom.1948 (-) Dr. Archibald Henderson is shot in the head and solved in acid by John George Haigh aka The Acid Bath Murderer, in Crawley, Leopold Road, West Sussex, United Kingdom.Haigh the lured Rosalie Henderson to his workhop and killed her as well.1952 (+) Murderer Larry Craig Green aka The Black Zebra Killer, is born in Berkeley, California, USA.

1954 (-) Filmmaker Dziga Vertov originally Denis Abelevich Kaufman aka The Man with a Movie Camera, dies of cancer at the age of 58 in Moscow, Russia.1971 (x) 28-year-old Serial Killer John Wayne Gacy aka The Killer Clown, is arrested and charged with assault of a teenage boy in Chicago, Illinois, USA.1979 (-) Filmmaker Jean Renoir dies of natural causes at the age of 84 in Beverley Hills, California, USA.1980 (-) Artist Oskar Kokoschka dies at the age of 94 in Villeneuve, Vaud, Switzerland.1980 (x) 33-year-old Serial Killer Ted Theodore Robert Bundy aka The Only Living Witness, is convicted to death for the murder of Kimberley Leach in Orlando, Florida, USA.1984 (-) Writer Julio Florencio Cortázar dies of leukemia at the age of 69 in Paris, France.1986 (-) Cutter of the Jonker-diamond Lazare Kaplan dies at the age of 103.1989 (-) Writer Thomas Bernhard dies of a heart attack at the age of 58 in Gmunden, Austria.1993 (-) James Bulger is abducted, tortured and stoned to death by 11-year-old Jon Venables and Robert Thompson at the age of 2 in Liverpool, Strand shopping centre, Merseyside, United Kingdom.1994 (-) Minimal Artist Donald Judd dies of lymphoma at the age of 65 in New York, New York, USA.1994 (x) 46-year-old Mass Murderer Freddy Horion aka Beatle, tries to escape through a hole in the wall of his cell in Leuven-Centraal, Brabant, Belgium.He is caught in the prison courtyard.1999 (-) Mass Murderer Edwin D. Bell commits suicide by a shot through the head at the age of 23 in Oklahoma City, Gardenwood Apartments, 1925 N. Gary Ave., Oklahoma, USA.Minutes before he shot his 45-year-old mother Linda Farris, his 21-year-old wife Markita King, and his children, 4-year-old Ebony, 2-year-old Essyce, and 8-month-old Marjonna Bell2000 (-) Musician Jalacy Hawkins aka Screamin’ Jay Hawkins, dies of aneurism at the age of 70 in Neuilly-sur-Seine, France.2003 (-) Murderer Richard E. Fox is executed by lethal injection at the age of 47 in Lucasville, Southern Correctional Facility, Ohio, USA.2004 (-) Double murderer Bobby Ray Hopkins is executed by lethal injection in Huntsville Prison, Texas, USA.2007 (-) Mass murderer Sulejman Talovi is shot dead in a shootout with police at the age of 18 in Salt Lake City, Trolley Square Mall, Utah, USA.He had shot five people and wounded four in a shooting spree

Saturday, February 11, 2012

1535 (+) 229th Pope Gregorius XIV originally Niccolo Spondrati, is born in Somma, Italy.1650 (-) Philosopher René Descartes dies of pneumonia at the age of 53 in Stockholm, Sweden.1847 (+) Inventor Thomas Alva Edison is born in Milan, Ohio, USA.1869 (-) Murderer James Whelan is executed by hanging in Ottawa, Canada.It would be the last public hanging in Canada.1906 (-) Murderer Milton Diltwer is executed by hanging at the age of 44 in Missouri, USA.1927 (-) William Gaffney is abducted from Riker Avenue, Astoria, Queens and strangled, cut to pieces and roasted by Albert Fish aka The Cannibal, at the age of 4 in New York, Brooklyn, 99 Fifteenth St., New York, USA.The body was dumped in the Bowery Bay.1935 (+) Musician Gene Vincent originally Vincent Eugene Craddock, is born in Norfolk, Virginia, USA.1936 (+) Actor Burt Leon Reynolds is born in Lansing, Michigan, USA.1937 (-) Child-murderer Albert E. Volckmann is executed by Old Sparky in New York, Sing Sing Prison, New York, USA.1938 (+) Musician Bobby Boris Pickett aka The Guy Lombardo of Halloween, is born in Somerville, Massachusetts, USA.1941 (-) Martha Zernowski is attacked and thrown out of a train by Paul Ogorzow aka Der Schnell-Bahn Mörder, in Berlin, Rummelsburg, Germany.1942 (-) Margaret Lowe aka Pearl, is strangled and sexually mutilated with a razorblade and candlestick as third victim by Gordon Cummins aka The Blackout Ripper, at the age of 43 in London, Marylebone, Gosfield Street, United Kingdom.1947 (+) Founding Symbionese Liberation Army member Emily Harris originally Emily Montague Schwartz, is born in Baltimore, Maryland, USA.1948 (-) Filmmaker Sergeï Mikhailovich Eisenstein dies of a heart attack at the age of 50 in Moscow, Russia.1957 (x) 31-year-old Politician Margaret Tatcher aka The Iron Lady, is chosen as leader for the Conservative Party in London, United Kingdom.1974 (+) Murderer Richard Cartwright is born in Texas, USA.1985 (-) Filmmaker Henry Hathaway originally Henri Leonard de Fiennes, dies of a heart attack at the age of 86 in Hollywood, California, USA.1986 (-) Writer Frank Franklin Patrick Herbert known for “Dune”, dies of pancreatic cancer at the age of 65 in Madison, Wisconsin, USA.1992 (-) Murderer Johnny Frank Garrett is executed by lethal injection in Huntsville, Texas, USA.1994 (-) Actor William Conrad originally William Cann aka Cannon, dies of heart failure at the age of 73 in Los Angeles, California, USA.1997 (-) Rosemary Downs is strangled by Alfred Gaynor at the age of 43 in Springfield, Massachussets, USA.1999 (-) Murderer Danny Lee Barber is executed by lethal injection in Huntsville Prison, Texas, USA.2000 (-) Filmmaker Roger Vadim originally Roger Vladimir Piemiannikov, dies of lymphoma at the age of 72 in Paris, France.2004 (-) Triple murderer Edward Lewis Lagrone is executed by lethal injection in Huntsville Prison, Texas, USA.

2006 (-) Writer Peter Bradford Benchley known for ‘Jaws’, dies of ideopathic pulmonary fibrosis at the age of 65 in Princeton, New Jersey, USA.

Friday, February 10, 2012

1829 (-) 252nd Pope Leo XII originally Annibale Francesco Clemente Melchiore Girolamo Nicola della Genga, dies at the age of 68 in Rome, Italy.1837 (-) Poet Alexander Sergeyevich Pushkin dies at the age of 37 in St. Petersburg, Russia.He was mortally wounded in a duel with Georges D'Anthès, the alleged lover of his wife, two days earlier.1883 (+) Revolutionary Fanya Yefimovna Kaplan aka The Woman Who Tried to Kill Lenin, is born in Volhynian Governorate, Russia.1890 (+) Writer Boris Leonidowitsch Pasternak is born in Moscow, Russia.1893 (+) Comedian and actor Jimmy James Francis Durante aka The Schnozzola, is born in Brooklyn, New York, USA.1898 (+) Dramatist Berthold Eugen Friedrich Brecht is born in Augsburg, Bavaria, Germany.1898 (+) Writer Joseph Kessel known for ‘Belle de Jour’, is born in Clara, Entre Rios, Argentina.1923 (-) Scientist William Konrad Röntgen dies of carcinoma of the intestine at the age of 77 in München, Germany.1932 (-) Writer Edgar Richard Horatio Wallace known for ‘King Kong’, dies of diabetes at the age of 56 in Beverley Hills, California, USA.1939 (-) 260th Pope Pius XI originally Achille Ratti, dies at the age of 81 in Rome, Italy.1942 (-) Evelyn Oatley aka Nita Ward, is strangled and sexually mutilated with a can opener as second victim by Gordon Cummins aka The Blackout Ripper, at the age of 35 in London, Wardour Street, United Kingdom.1954 (x) 59-year-old Guru Meher Baba originally Merwan Sheriar Irani aka The Silent Avatar, declares he is the Avatar, an incarnation of God in India.1962 (x) The United States and Russia exchange the spies Gary Powers and Rudolf Abel against each other in Berlin, Germany.1973 (x) 18-year-old David Allan Oliker, 18-year-old Robert Michael Spector, 19-year-old Brian Scott Card and 15-year-old Mark John Dreibelbis are shot dead by Mass-murderer Herbert William Mullin in Santa Cruz, Henry Cowell State Park, The Garden of Eden Overlook, California, USA.1978 (x) 31-year-old Serial Killer Ted Theodore Robert Bundy aka The Only Living Witness, is added to the list of the FBI’s 10 Most Wanted in the USA.1997 (-) Murderer Richard Jr. Brimage is executed by lethal injection in Huntsville Prison, Texas, USA.1999 (-) Serial Killer George Cordova aka Spiderman, is executed by lethal injection at the age of 39 in Huntsville Prison, Texas, USA.

2002 (-) Murderer and literary talent Jack Henry Abbott known for The Belly of the Beast, commits suicide by hanging with a shoelace in his prison cell at the age of 58 in Alden, Wende Correctional Facility, New York, USA.2002 (-) Adolf Hitler’s private secretary Traudl Junge originally Gertraud Humps, dies of cancer at the age of 81 in München, Bavaria, Germany.2003 (-) Wrestler and bodybuilder Curt Hennig aka Mr Perfect, dies of a heart attack at the age of 44 in a hotel room, Tampa, Florida, USA.I am the greatest wrestler, the greatest athlete the state of Minnesota has ever produced.2005 (-) Playwright and author Arthur Asher Miller dies of congenital heart failure at the age of 89 in Roxbury, Connecticut, USA.2008 (-) Actor Roy Richard Scheider dies of multiple myeloma at the age of 75 in Little Rock, Arkansas, USA.

Thursday, February 9, 2012

1555 (-) Bishop John Hooper aka Johan Hoper, is executed by burning at the stake in Gloucester, United Kingdom.1617 (-) Composer Hans Christoph Haiden dies at the age of 45 in Germany.1771 (+) Farmer, mechanic and composer Daniel Belknap is born in Framingham, Massachussets, USA.1773 (+) 9th president of the USA William Henry Harrison is born in Berkeley, Charles City County, Virginia, USA.1881 (-) Writer Fyodor Mikhaylovich Dostoyevsky dies of a lung-bleeding at the age of 59 in St. Petersburg, Russia.1885 (+) Composer Alban Maria Johannes Berg is born in Vienna, Austria.1902 (+) Nazi Reichsfrauenführerin Gertrud Scholtz-Klink originally Gertrud Emma Treusch, is born in Aldesheim, Germany.1913 (-) Black murderer Dand Rucker is lynched by burning in Houston, Texas, USA.1931 (+) Writer Thomas Bernhard is born in Heerlen, the Netherlands.1932 (-) Murderer Major Johnson is executed by Old Sparky at the age of 44 in Georgia, USA.1932 (+) Artist Gerhard Richter is born in Dresden, Saxony, Germany.1942 (-) Evelyn Hamilton is strangled as first victim by Gordon Cummins aka The Blackout Ripper, at the age of 40 in London, Montagu Place air raid shelter, United Kingdom.1945 (+) Actress Mia Farrow is born in Los Angeles, California, USA.1963 (-) Military overtaker of King Feisal II General Quassim is executed in Iraq.1963 (+) Actress Lolo Ferrari originally Eve Valois aka The Woman with the Largest Breasts in the World, is born in Clermont-Ferrand, Puy-de-Dôme, France.1968 (x) 46-year-old Artist Joseph Heinrich Beuys performs 'Eurasienstab 82 min Fluxorium Organum' in Antwerpen, Wide Whide Space Gallery, Antwerp, Belgium.1972 (x) 26-year-old Performance artist Chris Burden performs 'T.V. Hijack' on Channel 3 Cablevision in Irvine, California, USA.1977 (-) Engineer and aircraft designer Sergey Vladimirovich Ilyushin dies at the age of 82 in Moscow, Russia.1978 (-) Kimberley Leach is bludgeoned to death by Ted Bundy aka The Only Living Witness, at the age of 12 in Jacksonville, Lake City, Florida, USA.1978 (-) Head of the SS in Rome Herbert Kappler dies of cancer at the age of 70 in Soltau, Germany.He escaped from prison 10 months earlier.1979 (-) Helena L. is shot through the head by Freddy Horion aka Beatle, in Gent, East Flanders, Belgium.1980 (x) 33-year-old Serial Killer Ted Theodore Robert Bundy aka The Only Living Witness, marries Carole Boone in Orlando, Courthouse, Florida, USA.

1981 (-) Musician Bill Haley dies of a brain tumour at the age of 55 in Harlingen, Texas, USA.1983 (x) 37-year-old Serial Killer Dennis Andrew Nilsen aka Killing For Company, is arrested after neighbours complained about a blocked drain in 23 Cranley Gardens in London, Muswell Hill, United Kingdom.1984 (-) Soviet leader Yuri Vladimirovich Andropov dies of a bad cold at the age of 69 in Moscow, Russia.1996 (-) Double Murderer Leo Jenkins is executed by lethal injection in Huntsville Prison, Texas, USA.1998 (-) Triple murderer Steven Renfro is executed by lethal injection at the age of 40 in Huntsville Prison, Texas, USA.1999 (-) Double murderer Jaturun Siripongs is executed by lethal injection in San Quentin Prison, California, USA.

Wednesday, February 8, 2012

1587 (-) Queen of Scots Mary Stuart is executed by beheading at the age of 44 in Fotheringhay Castle, Scotland, United Kingdom.It took three blows to separate her head.1725 (-) Ruler Peter the Great originally Pyotr Alexeyevich Romanov, dies of an inflammation of the bladder at the age of 52 in Lakhta, Russia.1808 (-) Murderer Edward Donnelly is executed by hanging in Carlisle, Pennsylvania, USA.1828 (+) Science-Fiction writer Jules Gabriel Verne is born in Nantes, France.1834 (+) Scientist and inventor Dmitri Mendeleev is born in Verhnie Aremzyani, Russia.1872 (+) Philosopher Theodor Lessing is born in Hannover, Germany.1894 (+) Filmmaker King Wallis Vidor is born in Galveston, Texas, USA.1921 (+) Actress Lana Julia Jean Mildred Frances Turner is born in Wallace, Idaho, USA.

1921 (-) Anarchist Peter Alekseyewitsch Kropotkin aka The Anarchist Prince, dies at the age of 78 in Dmitrov, Russia.1923 (x) 120 Die in coal-mine explosion in Dawson, Mexico.1924 (-) Wife-murderer Gee Jon is executed by the Gas Chamber at the age of 29 in Carson City, State Prison, Nevada, USA.He was the first man to be executed by the Gas Chamber.1924 (-) Hermann Speichert is killed and his meat sold by Fritz Haarmann aka Der Hannover Werwolf, at the age of 15 in Hannover, Germany.1925 (+) Actor Jack John Uhler Lemmon is born in Newton, Massachussets, USA.1929 (-) Child-Rose Ohilger is strangled and stabbed to death by Peter Kürten aka The Düsseldorfer Monster aka The Vampire of Düsseldorf, at the age of 8 in Düsseldorf, NordRhein-Westfalen, Germany.1931 (+) Actor James Byron Dean known from “Rebel Without a Cause”, is born in Marion, Indiana, USA.1940 (+) Actor Nick Nolte is born in Omaha, Nebraska, USA.1942 (+) Producer and shaper of Californian Surf Sound Terry Melcher is born in Los Angeles, California, USA.He’s the son of Doris Day and one of Charles Manson’s enemies.1942 (-) Founder of the Organisation Todt Fritz Todt is killed in a planecrash at the age of 50 in Rastenburg, Germany.1948 (+) Cop Killer Lynda Lyon Block is born in Orlando, Florida, USA.1955 (-) Irmgard Strehl is strangled and butchered by Joachim Kroll aka The Ruhr Hunter, at the age of 19 in Herrenstein, Germany.1961 (-) Murderer Georges Riley is executed by hanging at the age of 21 in London, Shrewsbury Prison, United Kingdom.1977 (-) Irene Richardson is hammered, stabbed and her throat cut by Peter Sutcliffe aka The Yorkshire Ripper, at the age of 28 in Leeds, Roundhay, Soldiers Field, West Yorkshire, United Kingdom.1980 (-) Greek Folk-legend Nikos Xilouris dies of a brain tumour at the age of 43 in Greece.1989 (x) 144 Die in Independent Air Boeing 707 collision in Santa Maria Island, off Portugal.It crashed into a mountain.1990 (-) Singer-songwriter Del Shannon originally Charles Wedon Westover, commits suicide by a shot in the head at the age of 55 in Santa Clarita, California, USA.1997 (x) 24-year-old Mass Murderer Stephen Anderson goes berserk in a ski resort, killing six people and wounding five others before he was arrested naked and unarmed by authorities who tracked him through the rugged forest with the help of planes and helicopters in Raurimu, New Zealand.1999 (-) Writer Iris Murdoch dies of Alzheimer's disease at the age of 79 in Oxford, Oxfordshire, United Kingdom.2001 (-) Murderer Adolph Gil Hernandez is executed by lethal injection in Huntsville Prison, Texas, USA.2006 (-) Murderer Robert James Jr. Neville is executed by lethal injection in Huntsville Prison, Texas, USA.

Tuesday, February 7, 2012

1478 (+) Utopist Thomas More is born in London, United Kingdom.1769 (-) 248th Pope Clementius XIII originally Carlo Rezzonico, dies at the age of 75 in Rome, Italy.1812 (+) Writer Charles John Huffam Dickens aka Boz, is born in Portsmouth, United Kingdom.1863 (x) 189 Die in HMS Orpheus shipwreck in Auckland, New Zealand.1878 (-) 255th Pope Pius IX originally Giovanni Maria Mastai-Ferretti, dies at the age of 85 in Rome, Vatican City, Italy.He was the longest reigning pope (over 31 years) ever.1904 (-) Black murderous couple Mr and Mrs Holbert are lynched by burning in Doddsville, Missouri, USA.1906 (+) The Last Emperor of China Henry Puyi is born in Beijing, China.1914 (+) Assassin of Leon Trotsky, Ramón del Rio Hernández Mercader aka Jacques Mornard aka Frank Jacson, is born in Barcelona, Spain.1936 (-) Murderer John Daugherty is executed by Old Sparky at the age of 44 in Virginia, USA.1962 (x) 298 Die in coal-mine explosion in Völklingen, Germany.1979 (-) Nazi-doctor Josef Mengele aka The White Angel, drowns while swimming at the beach at the age of 67 in Beritoga, Brazil.1981 (-) Fatima Sohnenberg is strangled by Michael Wolpert aka The Strong Sex Drive, at the age of 42 in Frankfurt, Rodgau, Germany.1987 (-) Sarah Lindsey is raped, beaten and finally starved to death by Gary Heidnik aka The Cellar of Horror Murderer, in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA.

Monday, February 6, 2012

1665 (+) Queen Anne Stuart is born in London, England.1895 (+) Baseball player George Herman Ruth aka Babe Ruth aka The Sultan of Swat, is born in Baltimore, Maryland, USA.1897 (x) 17-year-old Serial Killer Fritz Friedrich Heinrich Karl Haarmann aka Der Hannover Werwolf, is diagnosed as suffering from a mental disease at the Provinzial Heil- und Pflegeanstalt in Hildesheim, Germany.1897 (+) Head of Murder Incorporated Louis Buchalter aka Lepke, is born in New York, New York, USA.1899 (+) Actor Ramon Novarro originally José Ramon Gil Samaniego aka The Sheik, is born in Durangao, Mexico.1905 (+) Communist leader Wladyslaw Gomulka is born in Warsaw, Poland.1911 (+) Actor and 40th president of the USA Ronald Wilson Reagan is born in Tampico, Illinois, USA.1912 (+) Wife of Adolf Hitler for one day Eva Anna Paula Braun is born in München, Germany.1917 (+) Actress and Beauty Queen Zsa Zsa Gabor aka Sári Prinzessin von Anhalt, is born in Budapest, Hungary.1918 (-) Artist Gustav Klimt dies of a stroke at the age of 55 in München, Germany.1922 (+) Actor Patrick Daniel MacNee aka John Steed, is born in London, Paddington, United Kingdom.1930 (x) 59-year-old Serial Killer and Cannibal Albert Howard Hamilton Fish aka The Cannibal, marries Estelle Wilcox in Waterloo, Iowa, USA.1932 (+) Filmmaker François Roland Truffaut is born in Paris, France.1934 (-) Murderer Ernest Brown is executed by hanging at the age of 35 in Leeds, Armley Gaol, West Yorkshire, United Kingdom.1945 (+) Musician Bob Robert Nesta Marley is born in Nine Mile, Saint Ann Parish, Jamaïca.1945 (-) Fascist writer Robert Brasillach is executed by the Firing Squad at the age of 35 in Fresnes, Montrouge Fortress, France.Many personalities, like Jean Cocteau, Arthur Honegger, Paul Valéry, François Mauriac, and Albert Camus, apply for a reprieve, which is not granted by President De Gaulle.1946 (+) Singer-songwriter Kate McGarrigle known for “Complainte pour Ste Catherine”, is born in Saint-Sauveur-des-Monts, Quebec, Canada.1947 (-) Frau Sch. is bludgeoned to death by Rudolf Pleil aka Der Großten Todmacher, at the age of 49 in Gudersleben, Germany.1948 (-) Murderer Stanislaw Myszka is executed by hanging at the age of 24 in Perth, Scotland, United Kingdom.1952 (-) Murderer Alfred Moore is executed by hanging at the age of 39 in Leeds, Armley Gaol, West Yorkshire, United Kingdom.

1967 (-) Actress Martine Carol originally Marie-Louise Jeanne Nicolle Mourer, dies of a heart attack at the age of 46 in Monte Carlo, Hotel de Paris, Monaco.1970 (x) 22-year-old Member of the Rote Armee Fraktion, Georg von Rauch is arrested with Thomas Weissbecker on charges of assaulting a journalist from "Quick" magazine in Berlin, Germany.1973 (x) 22 Die in School fire.The fire was lighted by 2 excluded pupils.1973 (-) Annick Delisle is bludgeoned and shot to death by Marcel Barbeault aka Le Tueur de l’Ombre, at the age of 29 in Nogent-Sur-Oise, Allée Paul Verlaine, France.1986 (-) Descendant of Cristofle Colombus, general Cristobal Colon De Carvajal is shot dead by the ETA in Spain.1994 (-) Actor Joseph Cheshire Cotten dies of pneumonia and complication of throat cancer at the age of 88 in Westwood, California, USA.1995 (x) Eighth bomb attack by 45-year-old Xenophobic Serial Bomber Franz Fuchs in Stinatz, Austria.Two people get injured.2007 (-) Murderer Henry Earl Jr. Dunn is executed by lethal injection in Huntsville Prison, Texas, USA.2007 (-) Musician Frankie Laine dies of heart failure at the age of 93 in San Diego, Scripps Mercy Hospital, California, USA.

Sunday, February 5, 2012

1840 (+) Engineer and tyre-manufacterer John Boyd Dunlop is born in Scotland, United Kingdom.1848 (+) Outlaw Myra Maybelle Shirley Reed Starr aka Belle Starr, is born in Carthage, Missouri, USA.1848 (+) Satanist writer Joris-Karl Huysmans originally Charles-Marie-Georges, is born in Paris, France.1878 (+) Car manufacterer André Gustave Citroën is born in Paris, France.1908 (+) Serial Killer Eugene Weidmann aka The Handsome Devil, is born in Sachsenhausen, Frankfurt-am-Main, Germany.1908 (+) Actress Peg Lillian Millicent Entwistle is born in Port Talbot, Wales, United Kingdom.1909 (-) Murderer Walter H. Johnson is executed by hanging at the age of 28 in Oregon, USA.1914 (+) Writer William Seward Burroughs is born in St. Louis, Missouri, USA.1924 (x) Ted Williams cuts the throats of his three daughters to save them from being put in an institution and presumed consequent prostitution in Sydney, New South Wales, Australia.1937 (-) Writer and psycho-analist Lou Andreas Salome dies of kidney failure at the age of 76 in Göttingen, Germany.1946 (+) Actress Charlotte Tessa Rampling is born in Sturmer, Essex, United Kingdom.1948 (x) 18-year-old Serial Killer Charles Ray Hatcher aka Evil Incarnate, is convicted of auto theft and sentenced to 2 years imprisonment in St. Joseph, Missouri, USA.1959 (-) Actress Gwili Andre originally Gurli Andresen, commits suicide by self-immolation at the age of 51 in Venice, California, USA.She surrounded herself with numerous articles and photographs about the career she expected and set it all alight.1973 (-) Rosalind Thorpe is shot dead and cut to pieces by Ed Kemper aka The Co-ed Killer, at the age of 22 in Berkeley, California, USA.1974 (x) 33-year-old Founding member of the Rote Armee Fraktion, Gudrun Ensslin is transferred from Essen to Ossendorf Prison in Köln, Germany.She is placed in a cell next to Ulrike Meinhof.1981 (x) 21-year-old Performance artist Danny Devos aka DDV, performs as 'David Mark Chapman', murderer of John Lennon with Xavier Rathé at 2e Verzameling in Gent, Handelsbeurs, East Flanders, Belgium.1997 (x) 73 Die in helicopter collision in Shaar Yishoev, Israël.2006 (x) Performance artist Danny Devos aka DDV, performs 'DDV from China' in Borgerhout, Factor 44, Antwerpen, Belgium.

2008 (-) Spiritual Leader Maharishi Mahesh Yogi dies of natural causes at the age of 90 in Vlodrop, the Netherlands.

Saturday, February 4, 2012

708 (-) 87th Pope Sisinnius dies of gout in Rome, Italy.1880 (x) 69-year-old James, Johannah, Thomas, Bridget and John Donelly are killed with clubs, spades and gunfire by the ‘Whiteboys’ Northern Division of the Ku Klux Klan in Lucan, Ontario, Canada.1881 (+) Artist Fernand Joseph Henri Léger is born in Argentan, France.1894 (-) Designer and musician Adolphe Sax dies at the age of 79 in Paris, France.1900 (+) Writer Jacques Prévert is born in Neuilly-sur-Seine, Paris, France.1902 (+) Aviation pioneer Charles Augustus Lindbergh aka The Lone Eagle, is born in Detroit, Michigan, USA.1907 (+) Victim of Fritz Haarmann aka Der Hannover Werwolf, Wilhelm Erdner is born in Gehrden, Germany.1908 (+) Actress Gwili Andre originally Gurli Andresen, is born in Copenhagen, Denmark.1912 (-) Tailor and parachute pioneer Franz Reichelt aka The Birdman, dies at the age of 33 in Paris, France.He jumped off the Eiffel Tower wearing a self-designed parachute, which didn't work.1915 (+) Nazi-executioner Walter Reder aka The Slaughterer of Marzabotto, is born in Freiwaldau, Silesia, Austria.1921 (-) Rapist and murderer Jack Alfred Field is executed by hanging at the age of 19 in London, Wandsworth Prison, United Kingdom.1921 (-) Rapist and murderer William Thomas Gray is executed by hanging at the age of 29 in London, Wandsworth Prison, United Kingdom.1928 (-) Child-abductor and murderer William Hickman aka The Fox, is executed by hanging at the age of 21 in San Quentin, California, USA.1940 (+) Filmmaker George Andrew Romero aka The Grandfather of the Zombie, is born in New York, New York, USA.1948 (+) Musician Alice Cooper is born in Detroit, Allen Park, Michigan, USA.1966 (x) 133 Die in All Nippon Airways Boeing 727 crash in Tokyo Bay, Japan.1970 (x) 236 Die in train collision in Buenos Aires, Brazil.1972 (-) Yvonne Weber is abducted and presumably killed by Zodiac at the age of 12 in Santa Rosa, Redwood Ice-Skating Rink, California, USA.Her skeletonised bodies was found 10 months later.1974 (x) 19-year-old Patty Patricia Campbell Hearst aka The Born-again Terrorist, is kidnapped by the Symbionese Liberation Army in Berkeley, California, USA.

1983 (-) Musician Karen Anne Carpenter dies of anorexia nervosa and an Icepac overdose at the age of 32 in Downey, New York, USA.1984 (-) Anneliese Schreiner is attacked and raped by Thomas Rath aka The Devil’s Moor Murderer, at the age of 20 in Bremen, Germany.She survived.1986 (-) John Jordan is presumably strangled by Kenneth Erskine aka The Stockwell Strangler, at the age of 57 in Brixton, London, Josephine Avenue, United Kingdom.1987 (-) Entertainer and musician Wladziu Valentino Liberace dies of AIDS at the age of 67 in Palm Springs, California, USA.1995 (x) Four gypsies are killed in the seventh bomb attack by 45-year-old Xenophobic Serial Bomber Franz Fuchs in Oberwarth, Austria.The gypsies tried to remove a racist poster near their camp.1995 (-) Writer Patricia Highsmith dies of leukemia at the age of 74 in Locarno, Switzerland.1997 (x) 54-year-old Serial Killer Myra Hindley aka The Moors Murderess, is given notice that she will never leave prison during her life in the United Kingdom.1999 (-) Satan Worshiper and Triple Murderer Sean Sellers aka Web of Darkness, is executed by lethal injection at the age of 29 in McAlester, Oklahoma, USA.1999 (-) Murderer Darrick Leonard Gerlaugh is executed by lethal injection at the age of 38 in Florence State Prison, Arizona, USA.1999 (x) Cannibal Dorangel Vargas aka The Hannibal Lecter of the Andes, is arrested on charges of cannibalism in Caracas, Venezuela.2001 (-) Composer Iannis Xenakis dies at the age of 78 in Paris, France.2007 (-) Murderer John William Elliott is executed by lethal injection in Huntsville Prison, Texas, USA.2009 (-) Musician Lux Interior originally Erick Lee Purkhiser, dies of aortic dissection at the age of 62 in Glendale, California, USA.